Materials & Manufacturing

Materials, Adhesives & Coatings

Surgical instruments, implants, catheters, endoscopes, and ultrasound probes all require a variety of materials, adhesives, and coatings. Access the technical resources for a range of medical materials and coatings. Design engineers can browse news, technical briefs, and applications for plastics, composites, rubbers, elastomers, and metals.

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Features: Medical
A plasma etching process called electron enhanced material processing (EEMP) has been shown to improve performance of metal and alloys.
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Features: Materials
Instruments used in minimally invasive surgeries today often require elaborate features, and greater attention to detail in the product-design process.
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Blog: Design
In the midst of the current pandemic, time is of the essence. So, when the US Department of Health & Human Services tapped Hamilton Medical, Inc. to aid the national...
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Features: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Micromolding can be seen as the latest technological innovation that enables the design, manufacture, and clinical use of groundbreaking medical devices.
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R&D: Medical
Researchers have developed a handheld 3D bioprinter that could revolutionize the way musculoskeletal surgical procedures are performed.
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Technology Leaders: Design
For wearable devices to function as intended, they need to have a secure, reliable hold for the desired duration of use.
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Technology Leaders: Design
Learn why stainless steel fixtures and equipment are the best choice for high-traffic and high use installations.
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R&D: Materials
Researchers are literally carving grooves into plastic threads used to build 3D printed tissue-engineering scaffolds with living cells.
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Products: Test & Measurement
Position sensors, power clamps, CT scanners, and more.
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R&D: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Engineers have created tiny needles that mimic parasites that attach to skin and could replace hypodermic needles.
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Briefs: Medical
The stretchable fabric is embroidered with conductive threads that provide excellent signal-to-noise ratio.
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Blog: Design
Tru-Form Plastics, Westminster, CA, has shifted its production plans to develop a face shield protective mask for healthcare workers on the front lines...
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Products: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Gas valves, flame-resistant polymers, robot actuators, and more.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The patch mimics electrical signaling of the heart.
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Features: Design
Cold plasma has been used for decades to treat surfaces in a variety of industries.
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R&D: Wearables
To develop a better adhesive alternative, researchers turned to a polymer: poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA).
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The smart material holds promise for drugs against cancer and other serious diseases.
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R&D: Electronics & Computers
As demand for smaller and faster devices grows, scientists and engineers turn to materials with properties that can deliver when existing ones lose their punch or can’t shrink...
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Products: Materials
The 4040/40 formulation includes two LyoTec® stopper designs — 13 and 20 mm — with a versatile universal
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Briefs: Materials
In the process, a high-yield electrodeposition is applied on certain conductive substrates.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Nanothin flexible touchscreens could be printed like newspaper.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Researchers have used sound vibrations to shake metal alloy grains into tighter formation during 3D printing.
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Briefs: Medical
The device made of heart tissue and a robotic pumping system beats like the real thing.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
IoT Prototyping Board Renesas, Tokyo, Japan, has introduced a low-power prototyping board that will simplify and speed up product development for IoT endpoint equipment including healthcare equipment. The RL78/G14...
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R&D: Materials
Researchers have developed a technique to quickly and sensitively characterize defects in 2D materials used in sensors and electronics.
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Products: Materials
Biomedical Coatings Jaro Corp., Ipswich, MA, Jaro Corp has added the capability to apply an advanced two-component polyurethane coating. Polane 8400 provides a biocompatible, chemically resistant, and durable surface...
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Features: Materials
There is no one-size-fits-all material when producing mechanical cable. The material chosen to produce wire rope can vary from one application to the next, because commonly, no two applications place the same...
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INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In addition to MD&M West, four additional trade shows are running alongside the medical device expo. These shows feature experts and suppliers from related industries like plastics, automation,...
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Briefs: Materials
Water is the basis of all life on earth. Its structure is simple — two hydrogen atoms bound to one oxygen atom — yet its behavior is unique among liquids, and scientists still do not fully...
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Eric Dietsch on the Benefits of Nitinol Wire
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Inside Story: Trends in Packaging and Sterilization
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Eurofins Medical Device Testing (MDT) provides a full scope of testing services. In this interview, Eurofins’ experts, Sunny Modi, PhD, Director of Package Testing; and Elizabeth Sydnor, Director of Microbiology; answer common questions on medical device packaging and sterilization.

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